The National Park Service is facing federal cuts. Here’s the likely impact for CT parks and trails.
Potential funding cuts could have an impact on delaying critical repairs and infrastructure projects at state parks across Connecticut.
The National Park Service set a visitation record in 2024. Here are the top sites
Boy did Americans and other visitors make good use of US National Park Service sites in 2024 – enough to set a record.
The National Park Service is grappling with massive layoffs. What you should know.
They range from national memorials to national seashores. The National Park Service says they are all often referred to as parks, but only 63 have "National Park" in their name, like Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
National Park Service advocates worry about peak visitor season amid cuts with more on the way
The number of National Park Service employees who keep more than 400 sites running is dwindling thanks to layoffs, buyouts. Here's what it could mean for visitors this year.
National Park Service Quiet About Record 2024 Visitation
There was no press release, no sparkling quote from the National Park Service's acting director, no agency public conversation about the record 331.9 million people who explored the National Park System in 2024.
Parks Group Warns of Dismantling of the National Park Service
"Quite simply and astonishingly, this is dismantling the National Park Service as we know it, ranger by ranger and brick by brick." - Theresa Pierno, NPCA's President and CEO
DOGE Abruptly Cut These National Park And Forest Service Workers' Jobs. Here's How It'll Impact You.
As a forestry technician and wilderness ranger for Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state, Downs picked up trash that campers left behind and buried human waste. Downs camped alongside visitors and taught them “Leave No Trace” principles to minimize human impact on ecosystems.
After DOGE firing, Carl Sandburg National Park Service ranger hopes to be reinstated
Haynes, a fired National Park Service ranger, worked at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site and called the job "a calling."
A rogue ranger is documenting every National Park Service firing
Park rangers are crowdsourcing terminations and cataloging the number of National Park Service employees the Trump administration has fired across the country.
Voters concerned about economic effects of U.S. Forest Service and National Parks layoffs, poll finds
New polling shows widespread support for increasing or keeping funding the same for the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service. This comes on the heels of the Trump administration’s recent firings of federal park and forest employees.
Sierra Club Sues to Reinstate Fired National Park Service, Forest Service Workers
In a new lawsuit filed alongside three other nonprofits, the environmental group claims that DOGE violated the Constitution by directing the NPS, Forest Service, and other federal agencies to fire thousands of employees—and that America's public lands are already feeling the strain.
Yosemite's congressman thinks everything's fine at the park. People are furious.
McClintock likened legitimate concerns about endangered species going extinct, devastating wildfires and public safety ...
2 workers laid off from the National Park Service sound off on their struggles: "I cycle through being angry, sad, distressed"
The White House's Department of Government Efficiency laid off about 1,000 National Park Service workers last month as part ...
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New Mexico National Park Service sites saw overall rise in visitors in 2024 as agency downplays record year
Despite record visitation to NPS sites, an internal memo was sent out to parks saying “there is no external communications ...
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French Quarter visitor center among park sites targeted by Trump admin for closure
A French Quarter visitor center is among 34 National Parks Service properties the Trump administration has targeted for lease ...
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Trump policies leave North Dakota summer tourism prospects uncertain
Communities and businesses near sites administered by the National Park Service and those reliant on Canadian tourists are ...
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A Day In The Park: Olympic National Park
Searching for a national park with a little bit of everything? Look no further than Olympic National Park in Washington State. Located on the Olympic Peninsula, you’ll find Pacific coast beaches, ...
In Utah’s National Park gateway, Trump’s ‘sledgehammer’ cuts, tariff threats inject uncertainty
In a tourist town still struggling to climb out from pandemic restrictions, tourists are canceling trips to Arches and Canyonlands national parks.
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Judge: Couple Can Keep House Built Without Permission In Glacier National Park
A judge has spared a home built by a California couple inside of Glacier National Park in Montana. Critics of the ruling say ...